Unloading apparatus.



G. D. WILLIAMS. UNLOADING APPARATUS. MPMGATION FILED JULY 21', 1913.

1,090,5 10. yPatented Mar. 17, 1914.

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Mmm I z Nm@ @y G. D. WILLIAMS. UNLOADING APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED JULY 21, 1913.

Patented Mar. 17, 1914.

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G. D. WILLIAMS. UNLOAMNG APmRATUs. APPLICATION FILED JULY 21, 1913. 1,0905 10. Patented Mar. 17, 1914,

A f @anca T aZZ cli/0m it may concern the State of New: York, u and useful Improvements in Unload'ngAp-r following-,` taken in y connection with the yaccompanying,draw-. ings, isa full',-clear,

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GEORGE-Jil autrement* LiaiuviLLE, New YORK.

` Be it known that I, GEORGE Dl WIIillIMs; 0f Durlianiville7 paratusp of which 'ther ments in apparatus l stone,` sand, grave'kcoal; p materials of ike` size'froni oars ,boats and other places where ateniporary'; orpermanent installation 'of such apparatusA might be useful.' -f l The' main -A object `is to for` unloading crushed prende" alight,-

l strong' and portable apparatuswhich'mav posit through the be easily and quickly installed lon the body of a, car, boat or other support so" as to afford `a relativelywide rangeof action fdr transferring materials from such car or boat into other-vehiclesaior conveyersgorj from one locality without alteringthe" position ofl In other such apparatus.I n l simplev words I have sought to provide means for 'haul'- ing, hoi-sting and conveying such inaterial`sfrom. any.A direction and from V.remote or proximate locations to a given point of de# medium of `a vsingle line or cable leading to power (not shown). i Y i Another object is .to enable tlicable Eto utilized in the operationof ari'evolving hoist whereby lthe be automatically brought tothe point ofdeposit from. any directiQii'without liability d of entangling or jamming any part of the cable or otherwise interferin withthe Avoluntary discharge of-the bucet by the operator. A further objectv is to provide suitable' brake V.mechanism cacting with the hoist drum for controllin the 'positionpof the drag cable when loading the bucket and also for regulating the speed "of saiddrum andv position fordischargefo-thebucket-iI `Other objects and uses 'relating 4to specific parts of the apparatus will in the following` description.

a' railway Vcarand -fmy .im-r

lthe carlomittin l .....sho'wii iii Fig.- 2, thel in the county of 0neida, in have invented neW and*y exact description; This invention'l relates -tev certain improve-.1

grain and other `any available sc urce of bucket or scraper mayv be brought out Thedrurn heads -5- In the drawings Figure 1- is atopfplan.. ofl a portion of proved unloading apparatus in operative re-. y lation thereto; Fig.".2 :is fa sideveleyavtion of. the samegipparatu'sand.adjacentportion et.. the bucket or scraperY Eig.'

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body of the car being shown insection.` VFig. L is a transverse ver- Vticalsectional view tirough the drum and adjacent, portion of thecar body, taken on line Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is an enlarged lon- .gitudinal sectional view of the detached bucket or scraper. Fig. 6 is an enlarged s ection-nl {view through one of the handles of 'tliescraper taken'on line 6-6, Fig. 5.. lFig. 7 isl an enlarged longitudinal vertical sectionalwiew through the hoisting drum and its supporting frame taken on line 7-7, Fig. 1.f Fig'.f8 is an enlarged detail sectional viewV Vtif-a portion of the rim of one of the gdrinn lheads'taken on line 8`8, Fig. 4. Figs. 9 and 1,0 are'enlarged detail sectional views throulgh` the lower portions of the drumsu'ppor tingframe taken respectively on lines afa aridio''-io, Fig. '7. 'order that my invention may be clearly understood, I have shown a poi-tion of a'- railway car *A5 as mounted upon a track and provided with the usual uprightI sides'ga'- for `receiving and -supporting vt'hemajor.portion of the unloading Vapparatus forming the subject matter of my presentfinvention.A J g This apparatus comprises a pair of upright standards ,1- having their lower endsl provided with inverted U-shaped clamping members 2*- and screws or bolts `by which they may be easily and 'quicklyclamped to the upper edges of one Side asked* of the car for firmly holding the standards in an upright position some istance apart. 4The upper ends of these standards are provided with journal bearings *l-fffor receiving and supporting a pair of axle studs or sections 4k which areffree to rotate in their respective bearings and extend inwardly toward each other fsomedistance beyond the same for receiving and supporting a pair of rotary drum heads 5*- forming apart of the hoisting drum presently described. The inner ends ofthe axle studs -4- are also spaced some distance yapart suilicient to permit the passageof abucket as -C- bet- Ween them. 4 y are mounted upon theinner ends of the studs or axle sections to, rotate therewith or thereon and are 4also spa cedapart a sufficient distance to pervmit the bucket 'to pass between them in the Joperationof discharging a load therefrom, heads being provided with hubs an dran GL/jand rims Tf connected to said hubs by Iradial spokes 8- and tension rods -9-, the latter serving to connect the rims with the outer ends of the hubs for bracing the drum heads to resist the strains to which they may be subjected, The rims of the drum heads are connected by stiening bars -10, il and 12-F spaced apart circumferentially at an angle of approximately 90o so that the bars w10-d and 12M are normally disposed in a substantially horizontal plane at diametrically pposite sides ot' the axis while the bar 1l-- is normally at t-lie top of the drum heads when the apparatus is at rest as shown more clearly in Figs. 4 and 7 The drum heads are also additionally impressed against relaand serve to receive,

tive Amovement y diagonally cross bars *13d disposed in intersecting planes wholly at one side of the axis oppothe bar l1- drum by brace bars nearly in the plane being also braced to each 14E- which are located ot the axis of the druni but are spaced a suiiicient distance apart longitudinally of said axis'to permit the bucket -C- to pass between them in the operation of discharging its load.

The drum heads -5 and connecting bars `11 an 12 together with the brace bars i3-f and 14,-- constitute what may be termed a hoisting drinn divert and hoist the from the interior Vof the car of discharge uponI the chute FD which is supported upon the adjacent side of the car in a plane below the hoisting' drum and between the heads thereof so as to conduct any material which may be discharged thereon from the bucket to the exterior loaded bucket to its position of the car and thence into 'a wagon or other conveyer or into any other receptacle as may be desired. The hoisting drum is positioned upon its supporting members or standards -lso that'snbstantially one-halt overhangs the interior of the car while the other half extends beyon the exterior of said car directly over the chute Dd and when the hoisting drum is in its normal position for loading the bucket, the bar -10 is located directly over the interior of the ear and is provided with 'a radially projecting arn -1G- for receiving and supporting a pulley block -l7 around which is passed a cable *1S-f. One end of this cable is attached to a bail zron the Jfront end of the scraper or bucket -Cd, the opposite end after passing around the sheave or pulley block flfr being assed through another pulley block 19- *onthe lengthwise ar ll and thence over a suitable roller on the cross bar 1Q-J from which it passes around a foot block or pulley --Q1- and is adapted to be connecte power either animal, electrical or mechaniktion o loading or returning extending' l and at their opposite ends'with one o `or shift the apparatus to aiiy available source ofv cal for drawing the loaded bucket Vforward through the material to the hoisting drinn and then rotating the hoisting drum with the bucket thereon to its position otdischarge into the chute Mounted upon the arm or spindle -16isan anti-friction roller bearing n-QEZJ for tion of the cable 18 which is adapted to bear against said roller as the bucket is drawn to and Jfrom and to different portions of the car.

The bucket is preferably of the shovel type having the edge of its bottom provided with teeth for handling coarse material while its re'ar end is provided with suitable handles -0"A adapted to be engaged by the attendant or operator for properly manipulating the scraper while loading and alsoto Jiacilitate the discharge o the scraper into the chute operator when the scraper or bucket .is hoisted to its dumping position by the drum. The rotary action of the drum may be controlled by the saine or a diiliei'ent attendant from either end thereof by one or the other of a pairy o brakes f--Q'S-d mounted on the inner ends of pedal levers 2% which are fulcrnmed the adjacent vupright standards at the ,underside of the drum heads and may be operated by hand through the medium of hand levers Q5- which are connecte to the pedal levers 24.-- by links -26' as shown more clearly in Figs. 2 and 7 and, inasmuch as it is only necessary to operate one of these brakes at a time, l have provided means as hooks or detents --28-A by which the iuactive lever may be held in its inoperative position while the other lever is released for action, the levers r--4 being also fulcrumed upon the adjacent uprights -l-. 94d and #Q5-being guided in their vertical movement in suitable ways -,-30 as shown more clearly in -Fig. 9.

In addition 'to the clamps -Q and ZLd for holding the upright standards if in operative position upon the side of the car, they are additionally secured in place by flexible connections -91- connected at one end to the lower ends oi the clamps fillt ie 2- oii the underside of the truss rods, as 3 body of the ycar, readily detachable when desired to remove from one Car to another.

The chute D is provided with hookshape arms --233-L engaging the upper edge and inner side face ot' the adjacent side ot the car, said chute being also provided with V-shapedbraces 34e-7 secured to its underside and bearing outer faces "of the adjacent side of said car so that the chute may the adjacent pordruni in the operathese connections being' by the saine lli at their apexes against the v be readily placed in row X inthe operation of lifting the loaded ed by a brace bar 37` while the upper portions are additionally braced by upright `said standards and having their upper ends 1,090,510 i p w the pulley blocks +17- and -19- and around the rollers `20-` and `22`, it being understood that the bucket is to be guided by the operator through the medium of the han les M, then, as the bucket is dra-wn .forwardly sufficiently to cause the cable attachment on the bail of the bucket to engage the pulley block -l7-, the continued draft on the cable will cause the roopeiative position and removed when desire During the operation of loading the bucket, the pull upon the cable tends to rotate the drum in the direction indicated by arrow X, Fig. 4, but is held against rotary movement ythe active brake shoe `23` which is also adapted'to enga-ge one or the other of a series of radially projecting stops `3o` on the periphery ofthe adjacent drum head chute `D` whereupon the rear end of the bucket is tilted upwardly by the operator "to discharge its load into the chute, one or other of the brakes 23` being applied to the adjacent drum head to stop the rotation of the drum as soon as the bucket has reached its dumping position between the drum heads. After the bucket is.dun1ped, the power for drawing it forward is te: leased and the bucket togetherrwith the cable attached thereto and alsol the hoisting proaches its positioil for reloading.

bucket toits dumping position.

In order thatlthe standards L-lmay be more rigidly held in fixed relation, the lower ends of the clamps `2` are connectdrum and manner of connecting' the cable 100 thereto, it is evident that the whole construction may be somewhat modified without departing from the spirit of this invention,`and, therefore, I donot limit myself to. the exact construction shown and described.

What I claim isz- 1. A. loading and unloading apparatus comprising upright standards having clamps for securenient to a suitable support, a hoisting drum journaled in said. standards and lhaving drum heads spaced some distance apart to receive a buckiet Vbetween them, a pulley block on the drum between the heads, .a cable passed through the pulley block, a bucket attached to onel end of ,the cable, the other end of the cable, having means for attachment to a suitable andnsecured in such position by inserting power for operating the same. their respective axle studsf4`through the V 2. A loading and unloading apparatus 120 hub 6*v and into the journal bearings comprising a drum having heads spaced bars 38% passing through eyes `359-- on connected by 'a lengthwise bar `'40` some l distance above the drum, the lower 4ends of the rods -38- resting upon the upper edge of the 'adjacent side of the car. This bar 4U` together with its supporting rods #4J- and afterward securing the axle some distance apart, cable Guides on the studs 1n place' by suitable collars on the drum betweenthe heads, a cble rendering ends thereof as shown more clearlyinFig?. over said guides, a bucket attached to one Operation.: In operation, assuming that `end of the cable, the other end of the cable 1'25 t e .parts are in their normal positions, as having means for attachment to suitable 'c the bucket power for drawing the bucket and cable is ready to receive a load and-that suitable endwise, said bucket having means cop Y power is applied to the opposite end of the erating with the drum to rotate the latter -cable for drawing the cable endwise through as the cable is drawn en wise whereby the.

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bucket is raised and carried between the axle studs and also spaced some distance heads -by the rotation of the drum for dumping.

3. A loading and unloading apparatus Z comprising a rotary drum having .heads spaced some distance apart, a chute below the drum, cable-supporting sheaves on the drum, a-'cable assed around said sheaves, means on thecable for engaging one of the sheaves and rotatingthe drum as the cable is drawn in. one direction, and a bucket attached to said cable.

4. A loading and unloading apparatus car body, axle studs mounted in sai standcomprising a drum having heads spacedi ards coaxial with each other and having l5 some distance apart for receiving a bucket between them, cable-supporting sheaves on the drum between the heads, a bucket attached to one end of the cable and means tor holding the drum against rotation while.

the bucket is being drawn -toward the drum, and additional means actuated by the cable for rotating the drum whenthe bucket is drawn into close proximity thereto whereby the bucket is carried upwardly between the heads to its dumping position.

5. A loading and unloading apparatus comprising upright standards, axle sections mounted on said standards inv axial alinement and having their inner ends spaced some distance apart to receive a bucket between them, drum heads mounted on said the bar between the heads, a cable passe rotating the drum when the cable is drawn and 'a bucket attached to the cable and the drum heads when the drum is rotated. jln combination with a car body, up-

their inner ends spaced for receiving a bucket between them, drum heads mounted on the axle studs andgalso spaced some distance apart, a bar connecting the peripheries o the drum heads, a cable guide on the bar, a cable passed around the guide and having means coperating therewith to rotate the drum as thc cable is drawn in one direction a'predeter-v mined distance, and a bucket attached to said cable.

. In witness whereof I. have hereunto set my hand this 18th day of July, 1913.

GEORG D. WILLIAMS. Witnesses:

CHASE,

EVA E. GREENLEAF.

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adapted to be lifted and carried betweenV right standards clamped to one side of the some distance apa/rtl apart, a bar secured to the peripheries o said drum heads,a cable guide. mounted on,

through said guide, means on thecable vfor4 v in one direction a predetermined distance 

